Improvement in saddle-girths



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UNITED STATES y SETH W. BAKER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SADDLE-GIRTHS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,268, dated November28, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, SETH W. BAER, of the city and county of Providenceand State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSaddle Girths, Surcingles, and other Bands for Horses, of which thefollowing is a specication, referring by letters to the accompanyingdrawing making part of the same, in which- Figure l is my improvedsaddle-girth. Fig. 2 is a surcingle embodying the same improvement. Fig.3 is a breast-band or plate of like character. Fig. 4 represents across-section, full size, of said girth or band.

Similar letters denote like parts or features in all the said figures.

My invention relates to making fringed bands of thick woven material forhorses wear in lieu of leather straps and single or tubular woven bandswith a selvage or double edge heretofore in use. The purposes for whichthe said bands are intended are for saddle-girths, surcingles, 825e.,and for the breeching and breast-plate of harnesses and the like; andthe object in view is to avoid chafng and galling the anilnals skin. Thematerial which I prefer for these bands is a thick-Woven fabric ofcotton or woolen, or both, composed of a number of sets of warpsinterwoven with a number of overlying shoots of filling-threads or weftuniting the whole together and forming a thick porous fabric of soft andyielding texture and of great strength and durability; and I preferalso, instead of weavin g separate bands of this fabric, to cut a widepiece into strips of the required width, in order that the bands shallbe of uniform body or texture from side to side, and because the selvageis unnecessary, if not objectionable. The strips to form said bandsshould be cut parallel to the warp-threads, and the loose ends of theweftthreads may be secured by rows of elastic stitching through andthrough the fabric at from an eighth to a quarter of an inch from thetWo edges, as shown at f, in Fig. 4, after ,which the warpthreadsoutside of the stitching may be removed and the loose ends of theweft-threads raveled out to form a short fur or fringe at each edge. Theporous nature of the fabric adapts it to absorb and exhale theperspiration instead of allowing it to accumulate under and around theband, and thereby render the animals skin tender and more liable toinjury from chaing. Its soft and yielding surface obviates irritationand chaiing from slipping or severe rubbing in contact with the heatedskin, and the fringe serves as a safeguard to prevent chaflng andgalling or cutting into the yielding hide when tightly girted around theanimals body, all of which advantages are important, and are calculatedto prevent injury and contribute to the usefulness and comfort of theanimal.

Having described my invention, I claim- As a new article of manufacture,a textile band for horses woven With several sets of Warps and filling,and having its edges unselvaged and forming a compact mass of one set ofthreads only.

Witnesses: SETE W. BAKER.

ISAAC A. BUNNELL, L. l?. CHILD. (72)

